These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, these writers celebrate the variety and vitality of the short story as a form by writing their own conclusions to the story of the world. Obliteration has never hurt so good. Contributors include Grace Agui...
A Place So Foreign and Eight More
by Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow
"A wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real." Marlon James"A fantastical, fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous." Roxanne Gay"Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying." Independent"An exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction." Guardian.---Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises themaway from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not withthem, but with her own body. It's changing, it's itching, it's...
'John Marrs is not to be missed.” Freida McFadden, bestselling author of The Housemaid'The books of John Marrs have become a quiet phenomenon . . . Thoughtful, well written . . . and alarming' - Daily MailSome families are virtually perfect . . .The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families let, alone raise them.But for those desperate to experienc...
The new thriller from Michael Crichton, one of the most famous authors in the world, will be the most exciting, anticipated publication of Christmas 2006. Is your loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? It's 2006: do you know who all your children are? Do you know humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes? And why does an adult human being resemble a chimp foetus? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction -...
*THE TIMES THRILLER BOOK OF THE MONTH 2024* YOU’RE STUCK IN A LOOP. YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. CAN YOU BEAT THE CLOCK – AND SAVE YOURSELF? READ THE HIGH CONCEPT, PULSE-POUNDING NEW THRILLERPerfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh’s Hostage and Gillian McAllister’s Wrong Place Wrong Time'A taut fusion of relativistic physics and physical violence, powered by the supreme love of a mother for her son' The Times‘I absolutely LOVED this. Groundhog Day meets Hostage. A great idea, brilliantly executed’...
Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is under threat, so after yea...
In 1949, eight years after the "Peace with Honor" was negotiated between Great Britain and Nazi Germany by the Farthing Set, England has completed its slide into fascist dicatorship. Then a bomb explodes in a London suburb. The brilliant but politically compromised Inspector Carmichael of Scotland Yard is assigned the case. What he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists, of staunch King-and- Country patriots and hardened IRA gunmen, to murder Britain's Prime Minister and his ne...
It all starts when a man comes to deliver a message to Frank Compton - only to fall dead at his feet. What follows is a suspenseful thriller that only Timothy Zahn, a master of hard science fiction adventure, could have written. More than two hundred years from now, the Ouadrail transportation system run by the enigmatic Spiders connects civilizations throughout the galaxy. Someone is threatening the entire system and the worlds it serves with a military force that could wreak interstellar havoc...
The People's Detective (A Sonny Trueheart Mystery, #1)
by Nicholas Louis Baham
My New Best Friend Is an Alien (Federation of Intelligent Life, #2)
by Liz J Andersen